Public health experts warn any delay to the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could threaten decades of progress.

By 2025, more than 13 billion doses of the vaccine are estimated to have been administered globally, saving untold millions ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely never had to ...

The World Health Organization has declared Indonesia’s polio outbreak officially over, following nearly three years of intensive response efforts, officials said Friday. Indonesia has remained largely ...

Polio, a disease that in the past paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, is making a comeback in the U.S. due to vaccine skepticism and declining immunization rates, The New York Times reported ...

“My dream is for Africa to be totally eradicated of polio. Africa, it is our turn to give a red card to polio,” said Fabrice ...

United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children's polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.

Citrus High School Interact students visited the Inverness Rotary Club and offered members a chance to take part in the ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has declared that a polio-free Africa is within reach but warns that decades of ...

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but ...